Apple has unveiled its iPhone 16 line-up, saying it’s going to be attainable to play AAA video games on all units within the vary – and never simply the pricier Professional mannequin, as was the case final 12 months.
Apple began bigging up iPhone’s AAA gaming credentials with 2023’s iPhone 15 line-up, saying the likes of Murderer’s Creed Mirage and Resident Evil 4 Remake would all be playable the £999+ ray tracing enabled iPhone 15 Professional.
12 months on and the iPhone 16 is right here with a 30 precent CPU and 40 p.c GPU increase over final 12 months’s mannequin, courtesy of the brand new A18 chipset in preparation for Apple’s computationally demanding on-device AI options, due later this 12 months. And that additional oomph (which incorporates hardware-accelerated ray tracing on the iPhone 16) means AAA is not relegated to the Professional.
Apple says the bottom iPhone 16 is able to operating the already launched likes of Demise Stranding: Director’s Minimize, Murderer’s Creed Mirage, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil: Village. Digital Foundry has beforehand checked out all 4 video games operating on the iPhone 15 Professional, reporting combined outcomes, so it’s going to be fascinating to see how this 12 months’s iPhones examine – even when claims of low AAA gross sales on iOS imply we’d not be seeing an inflow of recent big-name titles anytime quickly.
The iPhone 16 (which features a new bodily Digital camera Management button, and the beforehand Professional-only Motion Button) begins at £799 for 128GB of storage and at 6.1-inch show. The 6.7-inch iPhone 16 Plus, in the meantime, prices £899 for a similar quantity of storage, and it is solely up from there. Over on the Professional facet of issues, pricing begins at £999 for the 6.3-inch/128GB mannequin, or £1199 when you’re after the 6.9-inch Professional Max. All fashions launch on twentieth September, with pre-orders obtainable from thirteenth September.
In associated information, Apple has confirmed iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 will each launch subsequent Monday, sixteenth September. These each introduce a brand new Sport mode, designed to minimise background exercise to enhance body charges – and there is promise of improved responsiveness for wi-fi sport controllers and AirPods too.
